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<div style="border:none; padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm" class="nine-pg" dir="auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>From:</b> Jim Abernathy <jfabernathy@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 28 August 2020 1:48 am<br>
<b>To:</b> Discussion about MythTV<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [mythtv-users] mythtv on Raspberry 4 4GB with 64 bit OS's<br>
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<div class="nine-pg" dir="auto">I got mythbackend and mythfrontend working on a RPi4 4GB running from a
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<div class="nine-pg" dir="auto">SSD using both Raspberry Pi OS (aarch64) and Ubuntu 20.04 aarch64.</div>
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<div class="nine-pg" dir="auto">However, to my eyes it made no difference. To me the RPI4 is still a
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<div class="nine-pg" dir="auto">marginal frontend for USA OTA mpeg2 video. If the scene motion
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<div class="nine-pg" dir="auto">increases the picture gets more jerky. Maybe at some point ffmpeg on
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<div class="nine-pg" dir="auto">aarch64 can make improvements.</div>
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<div class="nine-pg" dir="auto">So for now for a cheap system but great video quality, I'd pick RPI4
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<div class="nine-pg" dir="auto">4GB, USB3 SSD, with HDHR Quatro tuner for the backend and FireTV 4K for
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<div class="nine-pg" dir="auto">the frontend.</div>
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<div class="nine-pg" dir="auto">Jim A</div>
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<div class="nine-pg" dir="auto">I haven't been following closely- does the RPI4 need the additional mpeg2 licence purchased / enabled or is that only earlier versions? </div>
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